Professor Patricia Lysaght, an authority on the Banshee, talks about the traditions, history and beliefs surrounding the Irish harbinger of death. Dr Patricia Lysaght who lectures in the Department of Folklore in University College Dublin (UCD), has recently written a book about the Banshee. A supernatural figure in Irish folk tradition and an omen of death, the Banshee cries for certain families in Ireland. In particular, those whose names begin with O or Mc, and the old Anglo-Norman families.

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